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The current MacBook Pro can't be scrapped soon enough. What a mess.

Frankly if Apple just updated the old trusty 2015 MacBook Pro model to have 32gb RAM and a faster CPU, I'd be thrilled.

Which they can't. Intel CPUs don't support 32 GB RAM yet.

my thinkpad is running on 40GB RAM on an i7 just fine

Yep, because it doesn't use a mobile i7. So Lenovo made a different battery/RAM size tradeoff.

False. If you check Intel ARK, you can see, for example, the i7-2860QM has a max RAM of 32 GB (and this is a processor from 2011). Heck, the i7-8809G supports 64 GB.

We're speaking of mobile CPUs and LPDDR4, here. In other words, viable designs for laptops with good battery life that don't weigh 8 pounds.

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